Evening Star Newspaper, December 18, 1930, Page 17

DEATH DEMANDED FORTWO ONTRIAL FOR BUSH MURDER Defense Counsel Asks for Any Finding Except One of Electrocution. MOTION IS OVERRULED FOR DIRECTED VERDICT Prosecutor Collins Characterizes Crime as Premeditated and Cruel. Death sentences were demanded for both defendants today in the argument to the jury of Willlam H. Collins, As- sistant United States attorney, at the murder trial of William J. Carnell and Frank Mahoney in District Supreme Court. | The defandapts have been on _trial I week on ch¥ftges of murdering Louis ush, bus line operator, October 6 last, iR the garage of his home at 3534 Fulton street. Louis L. Whitestone of defense coun- sel made an equally insistent plea for any verdict other than that of guilty of first degree murder, which alone carries exccution as-the penalty. Overrules Defense Motion. Arguments began after Assoclate Jus- tice Peyton Gordon again had overruled & defense motion for a directed verdict of not guilty in so far as first-degree murder was concerned. This motion, previously denied, was renewed by Whitestone in a last-minute effort to &;:e“ the defendants from the electric chair. Collins declared the murder was pre- meditated and deliberate. He charac- terized it as one of the most cruel slay- : ings ever committed in the District. He contenced the defense was seeking make mitted suicide. “Do they expect you to believe,” Col lins demanded, “that Mr. Bush fired four shots and was able to°shoot him- #elf but once? The theory is absurd.” ‘The prosecutor stressed the fact that the defendants had purchased bullets and deliberately set out to “pull a stick- up” and commit murder if necessary to carry out their designs. Admits Robbery. - Whitestone said Collins exhibited “brazen effrontery” by suggesting the defense had intimatéd Bush committed suicide. He added there had been nothing in the testimony“from which such an inferencs might be drawn. He said the prosecution’s contention that the slaying had been premeditated was refuted by testimony that Carnell had been acquainted with Bush, did not y the bullsts for the pistol or load the weapon. “Robber, yes,” Whitestone said, “mur- derer, no. I wouldn’t have you return Carnell to the streets nor would I have M"!nnd him guilty of first degree murder.” | to the jury believe Bush had comj 10 PERSONS HURT | IN'ACCIDENTS DUE TOFIRST SNOWFALL {Sunshine and Slightly Warm- er Promise Early Riddance of Slush on Streets. MANY JOBLESS SEEK SHELTER AT MISSIONS Streets Closed to Prevent Accidents, Fire Trucks Skid, Crash Into Alarm Box and Parked Car. Sunshine and somewhat warmer weather promise an early riddance of the snow which blanketed Washington late yesterday, tying up rush-hour traf- fic and causing numerous accidents that resulted in injuries to four mo- torists and six pedestrians, One mo- torist was seriously hurt. The temperature was above freezing at noon today as 350 employes of the Street Cleaning Department scooped the slush from cross-walks and gutters. It was not necessary to bring out the plows or hire extra men to clear away the two-inch fall. Cold Will Follow. Above-freezing weather expected this afternoon, however, will be followed tonight by continued cold, the Weather Bureau predicts, with a minimum of about 23 before morning. The tem- perature got down to 24 degrees last midnight. Slightly warmer and cloudy weather is in prospect for tomourow, probably followed by rain in the afternoon or night. gl‘he snow began falling shortly after noon yesterday and by midafternoon was seriously inconveniencing the heavy pre-Christmas traffic. Motor cars slij ped and skidded into each other, ers were dented, tempers bruised and traffic, in many cases, brought to a standstill Traction Schedules Delayed. For the most part, the ucch}enunxje- sulted in rty damage only. is- abled mwmmu, with wheels broken, fenders caved in and the like, were temporarily abandoned in'all parts of the District. Bus and street car lines were unable to maintain their regular schedules, either late yesterday or this morning. There was no serious interruption of service, however, although most of the cars and buses were behind time. Drifts of snow across the runways of landing fields and airports south of the Capital last night prevented completion of airmail service between this city and Atlanta. The runways are being scraped today. Rej received at Bolling Field indicated that the drifts on the South- ern airports in many cases were more than two feet deep. Treat Brings Mail In. The only mail piane to reach the Capital Guring the night landed at Boil- ing Field at 11:30 last night with Verne E. Treat at the controls. His mall was sent on South by rail. Treat reported RUM CAR WRECKED TRYING TO ESCAPE Two! Colored Men Make Escape ‘ter Machine Skids and Crashes Into Tree. A heavily loaded whisky car was de- molished last night when it skidded while endeavoring to escape from pur- suing police and crashed into a tree at North Capitol street and Rhode Is- Jand avenue. Two colored men es- ‘caped from the wrecked car. Ninety half-gallon jars of whisky ‘were found packed in the tonneau of the car and removed in a patrol wagon %0 the twelfth precinct station. wrecked machine was towed to the same station house and will be turned over to Federal prohibition authorities. Pvt. C. B. Kimbell spotted the whisky car at Fourteenth street and Rhode Island avenue northeast shortly before 12 o'clock and started in pursuit. Swinging in bchind the automobile in & police machine, Kimbell gave chase ode Island avenue at a rapid te of speed. A screen of smoke was put out by the fleeing gar, but Kimbell kept close behind andgywas only a short distance in the rear when his quarry made a Jeft turn into North Capitol street, #kidded and hit the tree. The officer chased the occupants, but they had a commanding lead and made their escape. A number of jars of whisky in addition to those seized were broken in the crash. MONUMENT GROUP GETS GARDEN DATA! Report of Drilling Received and Decision Will Be Made on En- gineering Work Required. ‘The Washington Monument Advisory imittee was in session this after- noon to formulate plans for establish- ing the proposed gardens around the famous shaft The committee had before it a mass of figures, compiled as a result of sev- eral weeks of drilling operations by the Giles Drilling Corporation of New York in the vicinity of the Monument. Small jars of the types of soil encountered by the drillers were ready for examination. The committee will decide if further drilling is called for and just what en- gineering action is indicated. Attending were J. Vipond Davies of New York, consulting engineer; Fred- ick Law Olmsted of Brookline, Mass,, dscape architect; William A. Delano, architect, and Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, 2d, the commission’s vice chairman and executive officer. ‘The National Capital Park and Plan- ning Commission initiates a two-day meeting here tomorrow, and it is pos- sible that the advisory :rm:gemly be :Ne to make a report to parent in the next couple of days. STATE SOCIETY TO MEET Connecticut Group to Formulate " Winter Social Plans. The Connecticut State Soclety will héld » business meeting at the Willard Hotel formul interest to the society. 3 ton is president of the or- and Mrs, J. Robert Conroy | tomorrow night at 8 o'clock, to 1 for Winter that he had unusually good visibility, the snow-covered earth standing out sharp and clear. ‘The passenger lines flying out of ‘Washington concelled trips during the height of the snowfall as a safety pre- caution. Snow plows and large work crews to- day were cleaning the State- highways of Maryland and Virginia, the Ameri- can Automobile Association reported. The snowfall was heavier in virtually every district reported than in Wash- ington. Jobless Seek Shelter. The cold drove additional transients into the Central Union Mission and the Gospel Mission. Each organization had to provide emergency accommodations for about 25 extra men. Believed to have been prompted by the snow and cold, two men drove up to the Salvation Army headquarters at 426 Sixth street last night and handed over $70 with the request that 70 men be given & dollar apiece. Both men declined to furnish their names, but contented themselves with expressing the hope it would help out & bit. The money was distributed as re- quested by A. J. Laubach, social sec- retary, Skidding Truck Hits Man. The only person seriously hurt was James Herbert, 29 years old, 2210 Ran- dolph street northeast, who was struck by a skidding truck at Cathedral and Connecticut avenues. Herbert, a postal employe, was stand- ing beside his disabled mail truck when a van driven by Angelo Seflo, 22 years old, 1406 Fifteenth street, hit him. Herbert was taken to the Emergency Hospital with a fracture of the skull and lacerations of the scalp. Seilo was not held. Guy Keaton, 32 years old, 641 Girard street northeast, was treated at the St Elizabeth's Hospital Dispensary for a braken nose received when a street car, operated by Motorman E. R. Lawyes of the Georgetown car barn, struck a car iin which he was riding. Warren Wright, {27, of 100t Savannah street southeast, was driving the automobile. ‘Woman Hurt by Bus. Lacerations of the foot were suf- fered by Mfs. Carrie Hodgkin, 29 years old, of the Eastern Star Home when a bus ran across her foot as she was crossing Sixteenth street near Walter Reed Hospital. She went home after| being treated by physicians at Emer- gency Hospital. Miss Doris E. Strobel, 24 years old, of 814 Alabama avenue scutheast, and 6-year-old Lawrence Ourley of 212 Wal- nut street, Takoma Park, Md., refused hospital treatment after being struck by automobiles late yesterday after- noon. Miss Strobel was hit by a machine operated by J. Loren Freund, 19, of Connecticut avenue near Woodley road, while she was crossing Fourteenth and F streets. The Curley youngster was knocked down by an automobile while playing near his home. Three Hurt by Falls, Three of the pedestrians injured in falls yesterday afternoon and last night were found to have fractures when taken to hospitals for treatment. They The Foening Shar WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1930. SEASON’S FIRST MANTLE OF SNOW DROPS ABOUT CAPITAL its best appearance. Upper left: In Rock Creek Park, where Winter yesterday and last night busily painted this picture. Upper right: Potomac Park, where Lower left: The White House. Lower right: Crew shovelin g snow off the Capitol plaza. g | the 2-inch fall made —Star Staff Photos, FIRE ROUTS PUPILS Damage of $3,000 Done to Landon School, on Massa- "chusefts Avenue. With their clothes tied in bundles and carrying miscellaneous articles under their arms, 15 pupils of the Landon Scheol for Boys at 2131 Massachusetts avenue made a hasty exit from the up- per floors of the four-story school building early today when fire was dis- covered in the Kkitchen. The blaze, however, never got out of control and the boys, instead of troop- ing out on the snowy streets, remained in the ground-floor class rooms while firemen put out the flames, Two alarms were turned in and brought out eight engine companies and two truck com- panies. Edward Waterhouse, an instructor, discovered the fire in a kitchen cabinet shortly before 1 o'clock this morning. He used a chemical extinguisher in a futile effort to cope with the flames while some one else telephoned for fire apparatus. The flames got under the ceiling and also were led upward three floors through a conduit for pipes and elec- tric wiring, damaging the building to the extent of about $3,000. Little dam- age was done to the furnishings. Battalion Chief . O'Conner, in charge of the firemen, said he was un- able to determine the origin of the flames. It was thought, however, they may have started from defective electric wiring. R IO CORNELIUS McCOY SHEDS STOLEN SHOES IN COURT Serving 180-Day ‘S8entence for Theft of Clothing. Cornelius McCoy, colored, not only had the hard luck of receiving a 180-day jail term in Police Court today for stealing clothing, but the embarrass- ment of losing his shoes before an audi- ence of 200 persons seated in the court room. After Judge Robert E. Mattingly had sentenced McCoy for taking a suit of clothes, shoes and an overcoat, from Percy Lewis, colored, 458 Kings Court, he asked McCoy if h> had any of Lewis’ wearing apparel on him at this time. “Sure,” said McCoy carelessly, “these shoes are his.” “Take ’'em Off then” ordered the judge; “no, don’t go back in the lock- {up. Take 'em off right here.” “But judge,” pleaded McCoy, “I have 2 hole in my sock.” McCoy reluctantly sat down in front of the magistrate, took off the shoes, gave them to Lewis and strolled, prac- tically bar:footed, into the lock-up. NEW BOARD PROPOSED Howell Introduces Bill to License Engineers and Surveyors. A board for the licensing and regis- tration of engineers and land surveyors in Washington would be created by a bill introduced in the Senate by Sena- tor Howell, Republican of Nebraska, and referred to the District Committee. ‘The bill would provide that any person practising the profession of engineering were Mrs. Hattle Siloy, 57, of 622 Sixth street; Mrs. Sophie M. Johnson, 55, & clerk at the Swedish legation, and Le- land Barton, 65, at 1310 I street. Mrs. Siloy fell on the ice at Fifth and H streets and was taken to Emer- gency Hospital with a broken right arm a few moments after Barton had been removed to the same institution with a fracture of the right collarbone. Mrs. Johnson, who lives at 2659 Belmont road, was treated at Georgetown Uni- versity Hospital for a fracture of the ieft arm after slipping on the icy side- walk at Conn ut and Florida ave- Fire Trucks Skid. Two skidding fire trucks put a fire- alarm box out R Capitol and U mmflnm at North and crashed into safl P or land surveying would have to satisfy the newly created board of their quali- fications and be registered. a parked auto at North Capitol and K streets, Police roped off Thirteenth street from Florida avenue to Clifton street and Sixteenth street from Florida ave- nue to Crescent place as a precaution- ary measure against further mishaps. Several machines .skidded down both hills and miraculously escaped harm before officers had time to block the streets to vehicular traffic. Inspector Albert J. Headley ordered cinders spread on the steps and side- walks in front of all station houses of the Police Department as a further eguards FROM THEIR BEDS Practically Barefooted, He Begins| With the special purpose of giving immediate relief to unemployment con- ditions in this city, the Secretary of War, Patrick J. Hurley, has instructed Quartermaster Gen. DeWitt _to start at once the construction of the approaches to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the Arlington National Cemetery, for which project has been provided the sum of $416,000. . ‘The work will be inaugurated tomor- row afternoon at 4 o'clock by the breaking of ground by Secretary Hur- ley, in the presence of a distinghished company including Gen. Douglas Mac- Arthur, Chief of Staff; Col. Arthur Woods, chairman of the President’s Emergency Committee for Employment; Maj. Gen. J. L. DeWitt, quartermaster WORK IS ORDERED AT ARLINGTON TO GIVE JOBLESS IMMEDIATE AID Hurley to Break Ground Tomorrow for Approaches to Tomb of Unknown Soldier. general, Brig. Gen. L. H. Bash and Lieut. Col. C. G. Mortimer, Quarter- master Corps; Lorimer Rich, architect; J. W. Harris, representing the Hage- man-Harris Construction Co., the con- tractors; Capt. J. H. Gilman, con- structing quartermaster, and many others interested in the project. The ceremonies will be open to the public. Plans for the approaches were pre- | pared by Lorimer Rich and Thomas H. Jones of New York City at a Nauon-’ wide competition and have been ap- proved by both the Commission of Fine Arts, and the National Battle Monu- ments Commission, of which latter Gen. John J. Pershing is chairman. The contract calls for completion by December 31, 1931. ACTION ASSURED | ON BORLAND LAW Tilson to Clear Way if House Committee Makes Favor- able Report. Assurance was given today by House | Leader Tilson to the District Commis- sioners, Qorporlfion Counsel Bride and Cheirman Zihlman of the House Dis- trict Committee, that if that commit- tee makes a favorable report om the bill to amend the traffic code, to restore the Borland law which was made inopera- tive by a Supreme Court decision, and for authorization for widening upper Thirteenth street that an opportunity will be afforded for the House to act upon these measures. Chairman Zihlman took the District officials into the conference with House Leader Tilson because they have been insisting that the restoration of the Borland law and the measure to estab- lish a trafic director are imperative and that the measure for widening up- per Thirteenth street to Spring road can be passed without serious opposi- tion, This conference followed earlier con- ferences with the more active members on the House District Committee. This committee has not yet considered these measures, but House Leader Tilson told Chairman Zihlman and the District officials to go ahead withy hearings and that if the committee reports favorably he will see that such measures are af- forded an opportunity to be called up in the House. Mr. Tilson anticipates that there will be very serious opposition, especially to the proposal to restore the provisions of the Borland act. JOHN B. KELI:EHER’§ WIFE PAYS $7,500 COURT FINE Seven-Year Sentence Reduced to Five Years and Prisoner Is Eligi- ble for Parole Feb. 14, 1831. ‘The fine of $7,500 imposed on John B. Kelleher at the time of his convic- tion and sentence of five years on a charge of setting up a gaming table last year was paid this morning by his wife, Mrs. Anna B. )%all:{ur.‘ um;,nln was_reported, an application for parole would be filed in Ig:lleher‘l behalf. Kelleher, who has been in the District Jail since June, 1929, l% eligible for parole February 14, 1931, 1t was said at the Justice Department today. A sen- tence of seven years imposed by the trial court was reduced to five years by RS, LEE 10 ASK SLANDER RETRAL Motion Prepared After Jury Awards $4,000 Damages to Mrs. Ford. Mrs. Marguerite du Pont Lee, 68- year-old widow, will ask the District | Supreme Court for a retrial of the suit for $50,000 damages for alleged slander brought against her by Mrs. Maude Bell Ford, realty operator, in which a jury of two women and ten men yes- terday afternoon returned a verdict for $4,000 damages against her. Attorneys J. Edward Burroughs and Mackall & Mackall are engaged today in the preparation of the motion for a new trial, Should counsel be unsuccessful in their request, it is expected they will note an appeal to the District Court of Appeals. Mrs. Ford.in her suit claimed Mrs. Lee had made reflections against her morality and had accused her of caus- ing the intoxication of Rev. William | Thomas Reynolds, former rector of Grace Episcopal Church, Georgetown, when the minister was conducting a healing service at a fashionable Episco- pal church near Washington Circle in February, 1928, The hearing of the case, which end- ed yesterday, was enlivened with the reading to the jury of a number of let- ters from the defendant to the 40%2- year-old_minister. Mrs. Ford was represented by at- torneys W. Gynn Gardiner, Edward L. Marthill and South Trimble, jr. 4 —_— CHILDREN TO BE FETED Front Line Post, No. 1401, Veterans of Foreign Wars, will give a Christmas party for children of veterans, at Logan Hall, 1502 Fourteenth street, Monday, December 22. Miss Edith Reed will direct a class of children which will furnish enter- tainment in the form of recitations, singing and dancing. The program will be broadcast over a local radio station. At _the conclusion of the party gifts will be presented to the children from the Christmas tree. A business session of the post will follow the party. Later a dance wil be given by members of the post and the ladies’ auxiliary. GEN. DUNLAP SHIFTED Brig. Gen. Robert H. Dunlap, whe has been commanding the Marine Corps Base at San Diego, Calif., was ordered today to report to Marine Corps Head- 3\!:!1@1: at the Navy Department for uty. . Gen. Dunlap, who is a native of Washington, will be relieved by Brig. [ Har Ghief Justice McCoy after the Court of | teiioe was passed November 25, 1028, Gen. John H. Russell, until recently American High Commissionei to the FOR KINDERGARTEN Number Proposed as Basis for Justifying Continuance of Service. A kindergarten policy under which a one-teacher class would have to show | at least 22 children as “the average number belonging” to its rolls in order | to be continued in service, is being studied by the Board of Education members this week in preparation for action at the board’s next meeting. ‘The new policy was proposed by Dr. Frank W. Ballou, superintendent of schools, at the school board meeting late yesterddy, so that, as the school official explained, the board could have a definite statement of its kindepgarten policy for presentation to the House Subcommittee during the hearings on the 1932 school budget. 1If the hear- ings on school matters are begun prior to the next regular board meeting, Dr. Charles F. Carusi, president, will call a special meeting for consideration of the policy. Policy Change Explained. ‘The chief difference between the new policy and the statement of policy adopted by the board last month is the basis of class size. At present, a kinder- garten may be discontinued if its “aver- e daily attendance” falls below 18. Thus, & class is_endangered by a long period of bad weather or an epidemic of a children’s disease, because absence of pupils reflects definitely in the “aver- age dally attendance.” In the proposed policy the class would be discontinued if its “average number belonging”—the actual number of chil- dren carried on the class rolls—falls be- low 22. In raising the number from 18 to 22 the school officials pointed out that an average daily attendance of 80 per cent of the total number of children on a class roll is “very good” for children of kindergarten age. They showed fur- ther that by using the “average number belonging” instead of “average daily at- tendance” it would be possible for the | actual attendance to fall far below the present standard of 18, If it were shown that the absent pupils really expected to return, without threatening the elimina- tion of the class. Oppose Present Basis. School officers have consistently op- | posed the basis of average daily attend- ance, but this unit of measure was im- posed by the House subcommittee under | the chairmanship of Representative Robert G. Simmons of Nebraska. Other standards contained in the new policy follow: 4 A class with an average number be- longing of from 22 to 45 will have one teacher who, with the authority of her | superior officers, may divide her charges h’iow a métning and an afternoon ses- sion; A class of between 45 and 70 chil- dren may have a part-time assistant for the one teacher in charge; A class of more than 70 may have two full-time teachers. In cases where the kindergarten al- ternates with a first grade in the use of a class room, the kindergarten teach- er may have a part-time assistant if her class exceeds 35 and a second full- time teacher will be assigned if the class exceeds 45. If such a kinder- garten exceeds 50 children the excess pupils may be transferred to nearby schools. THIRTEEN CLUB TO MEET Annual Election Is to Be Held at Dinner Tonight. ‘The Thirteen Club will hold its an- nual election of officers at a dinner in the Arlington Hotel at '6:30 o'clock to- night. Nominees include: For president, Charles E. Huff and Lucian i”. Mercier; for vice president, Herbert G. Pillen; for secretary, Charles W. Prettyman; for treasurer, E. Hanscn Ely and Wil- Board of' Governors, Cl; Kellogg, David R. Lehmay Canl J. Mess, Ralph H. Houser, VSchnable and Dewey Zirkin, 221N CLASS ASKED m, Dr. ! Herry ¥ WESTERN T0 HAVE TWO STUDY SHIFTS DURING NEW TERM Board Adopts Emergency Program to Care for School’s Increase. 2,019 PUPILS TO ENROLL WITH FACILITIES FOR 1,350 ‘Third and Fourth Year Classes to Meet in Mornings, With Others Coming in Afternoons, ’ . Western High School will go on an emergency program with the begin- + ning of the new term, February 1, in order to accommodate an anticipated enrollment of 2,019 students with fa- cilities originally meant to serve 1,350. Board of Education late yesterday the school will be placed on a double shift, with third and fourth year classes re- porting at 8:30 a. m. and the first and second year classes reporting at 12:30 or 1 p.'m. The same program will prohibit the enrollment of any new Maryland or Virginia pupils, with the exception of the few which will be transferred from the Gordon Junior High School, nearby. In taking this action on the recom- mendation of Dr. Frank W. Ballou, su« perintendent, the school board also agreed to request the District Com- missioners to seek a deficiancy appro- priatien to provide for six additional Under a program adopted by the| PAGE B—1 COMMITTEE TAKES UP REDUCED FARE BILL TOMORROW Effort Will Be Made to Act on Measure Affecting School Car Rate. HANNA TELLS CAPPER CAPITAL TRACTION VIEW Was Misunderstood on Provision Limiting Cut, He"Writes to Senator. The Senate District Committee will be called together by Chairman Capper at 2:30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon in an effort to act on the new bill relating to reduced fare for school children, under’ which the fixing of the reduced rate would be left to the Public Utilities Commission instead of being deter- mined by Congress. ‘The Capital Traction Co. through Jobn H. Hanna, its president, advised Senator Capper today that its position toward one feature of this new bill has not been correctly understocod. The new | bill, which resulted from a suggesticn jadvanced by Senator Copeland at the hearing last week, was drafted by the Public Utilities Commission. It proe vided that the commission be empow- j ered and directed to establish a reduced fare for school children with a proviso “that such reduced fares shall not ex- ceed one-half of the corresponding con- cun':nt{dulh fares.” - teachers for Western High Scheol. In the face of the enrollment statis- tics, the school board found itself yes- terday with no alternative but to adopt the emergency program submitted to it by the superintendent, its members declared in open meeting. At least four board members orally deplored the ne- cessity of taking such “drastic and dreadful course.” Mrs. Henry Grattan Doyle, one of the most concerned members over the proposed program, declared that the only real answer to the conditions | which the emergency measures are in- tended to correct is a new senior high | school. Dr. Ballou agreed, pointing out that it was for the relief of such con- | gestion as that at Western that the school authorities requested funds for the purchase of a new high school site ncrth of Brightwood. This item, he ex- iplained, was stricken from the budget | by the Commissioners before it was | presented to the Bureau of the Bud- j get. Curtails Some Activitiés In response to queries by board mem- bers, Dr. Ballou explained that the “double shift” schedule will result in ! the curtailment of “some acivities,” | including the elimination or shorten- | ing of periods allotted to certain minor subjects, the elimination of the so- called study hours, in which students are given time to prepare their lessons, and the elimination from the actual school day of lunch periods. In the case of the .lunch periods, however, Dr. Ballou pointed out that the cafeteria will be operated so that upon the com- pletion of the day by the morning "shl{!" the students may get their meals. have the afternoon “shift” go to school at 1 p. m. Mrs. Philip Sidney Smith, | board member, pointed out that that group of pupils will have a school day which is a full hour shorter than that accorded the morning “shift.” It was explained by the superintendent that this division was made because of the more exacting need of the upper-class students. - Mrs. Doyle, however, contended that first-year pupils have a hard " enough time as it is acclimating themselves to the new routine of high school life, and she moved that in the approval of the superintendent’s recommendation, the board instruct him and Stephen E. Kramer, first assistant superintendent in charge of high schools, to under- take every means within their reach under the enforced emergency plan to afford the freshmen as complete a school day as possible. ’ In his address to the board, Dr. Ballou pointed out that 280 of the 1,800 chil- dren on Western’s rolls are non-resi- dent children. Despite the hardship which the presence of State puplls is working on District residents, the school officials do not propose to eliminate them from the severely crowded school. Mr, Kramer has explained that he feels the District school system has “a moral obligation” to provide school- ing for those children whom it per- mitted to enter the school. Hence these 280 boys and girls will not be disturbed. A curb on non-resident children, how- ever, will be found in the order pro- hibiting the enroliment of any strictly ‘“new” Maryland or Virginia children at Western. Increase to Be 219. ‘The measures adopted by the board late yesterday are based on the fact that Western’s enrollment will receive a known net increase of 219 pupils through promotions from elementary and junior high schools in its terri- tory. ~ Altogether, 269 children are scheduled to enter Western February 1, but 50 alieady there are expected to be_ graduated. In the discussion which resulted from Dr. Ballow’s proposal—a recommenda- tion which had the wholehearted sup- port of both Mr. Kramer and Dr. Elmer S. Newton, principal of the affected school—Dr. Charles F. Carusl pointed out’ that in its efforts to provide new school accommodations, the School Board should resort to every means it can to effect genuine economy. To this end, he asked if it were not possible to erect additions to existing high schools more cheaply than new insti- tutions could be erected. i Dr. Ballou replied with an extended explanation in which he contended that 1,500 children in a single building repnfim.s approximately the maximum number which should be assembled in one school in Washington. The ne- cessity of long distance transportation for greater numbers of boys and girls makes problems of congestion that in- volve safety of the children themselves. As far as costs go, the superintendent explained that a school structure “costs so much a cublc foot and it doesn't make a great deal of difference whether the construction takes the form of a new institution or an addition to an old one.” Continuing he said that the problem of building additions to senior high schools is further complicated by the fact that laboratory juipment and rooms now in the buil were de- signed for the use of the maximum number of children it was_expected would be enrolled in these ‘buildings. The addition of annexes with the re. sultant” iner demand on the lab- oratories and of rooms either ‘makes g facilitie ympletely ob- solete Or makes 1t necess to repeat these facilities in the annex. In, ‘response to thg m&fl dent’s explanation, Dr. Carusi lared “We are all trying to do all'ge ean When the proposal first was made to | Tells His Position. Mr. Hanna wrote Senator Capper to- day saying he had noticed newpsepnper Ireports from which it would appear that the companies had opposed the provision limiting the reduction to mot more than half the existing fares. “This statément does not correctly represent the position of the Capital Traction Co. as stated by me in answer to an inquiry of Senator Copeland at the recent hearing, nor as stated by me to the chairman of the Public Utilities Commission,” Mr. Hanna wrote. “We were shown by Chairman Patrick of the commission a draft of a bill which would ‘empower and direct’ th: commis- sion to establish reduced fares for school children with the proviso that such reduced fares would be not more than half the adult fares. As our un- derstanding of Senator Copeland's sug- gestion was that the proposed legisla- tion gives the commission unhampered authority in the matter of reduced school fares, we objected to the use the word ‘direct,’ but did not object the limitation on the amount of reduc- tion, which correctly stated Senator Copeland's suggestion. Would Prevent Error, i “I am sending you this communiea- tion in order to prevent any thought that the Capital Traction Co. had changed its position as stated to Senator Copeland before your committee, with- out reference to the position of either of the companies involved.” In transmitting the proposed new bill to the Senate Committee several days ago, Chairman Patrick of the commis~ sion advised the committee that the street car and bus companies object to the words “and direct.” Gen, Patrick’s letter added: “They desire the omission of the last sentence contending that no limitation should be placed on the rate-fixing commission.” COAGE GETS APPROVAL OF DISTRICT COMMITTEE The nomination of Jefferson S. Coage, colored, to be recorder of deeds may oc acted on by the Senate today or tomor- row, having been given a favorable re- port by the Senate District Committee late yesterday. The nominee has been a deputy re- corder in the deeds office since 1925, and has been serving as recorder since September on a recess appointment. Dr, George C. Havenner, an investigator of the Bureau of Efficiency, told the Sen- ate committee that bureau made a study of the recorder of deeds office not long ago and that Coage co-operated in m; that study. Dr. Havenner said h& flr?frded the nominee as a competent o to provide a seat for every child in our school system and this costs a great deal of the taxpayers' monéy. We think education and the proper facil- ities for it are worth cvery dollar we spend on them but at the same time we ought to take any means we can to save those dollars. I asked about th‘e dznnexu only with this object in mind.” In the same meeting yesterday, Dr. Carusi announced the personnel of the committee he was authorized two weeks ago to appoint for the purpose of mak- ing a study of the rejation of academic education and physical treatment for public school systems and just how far a public school ought to go in providing facilities for, cripples, tubercular, blind and deaf and dumb children. Dr. H. Barrett Learned, vice president of the School Board, was named chairman of the committee. Other members include Dr. J. Hayden Johnson, Schcol Board member; Robert L. Haycock and Gar= net C. ‘Wilkinson, assistant superin- tendents of schools; George Wilson of the Board of Public Welfare; Allen Talbert of Children’s Hospital; Dr. William A. Warfield of Freedmen's Hos- pital; Radford Moses of the Kiwanis Olub; Dr. Joseph Murphy of the Dis- trict of Columbia Health Department, and Mrs. Ernest Grant. J. E. Zearfoss, teacher at McKinley High School, was promoted yesterday to be director of manual training in' the white schools. Mr. Zearfoss succeeds the late John A. Chamberlain, and he comes to his new position simultaneousige with the launching of the reorganiza- tion of the manual training depart- ment. Faced with the possibility of the Commissioners’ failure to receive bids for the construction of the Dunbar High School stadium within the allow=- ed §75,000, through thc second adver~ tisement for proposals now out, the 1 Board will request the Commis- sioners to ask for an additional appro- priation. The first bids for this con- struction were, without exception, in excess of the money appropriated for the purpose, and new bids now are being sought. Dunbar's stadium has been awaited by that school for 16 years, delays having been caused by land acquisitions, plans for the struce ture itself and now by high prices. ‘The clerical and janitorial forces of the public schools will be given a holi- day on Christmas eve in accordance with the Scheol Board's action at its meeting late yesterday. This follows the lead set by the President in giving Federal employes & holiday through his executive order. The teachers of ihe schooi system, of course, will be off for the Cluistmas holidays anyway.